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Equilibrium and termination II: the case of Petri nets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

VINCENT DANOS  and
NICOLAS OURY
VINCENT DANOS
Affiliation:
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Email: vdanos@inf.ed.ac.uk; Nicolas.Oury@gmail.com
NICOLAS OURY
Affiliation:
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Email: vdanos@inf.ed.ac.uk; Nicolas.Oury@gmail.com
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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic properties of a restricted class of Petri nets equipped with stochastic mass-action semantics. We establish a simple algebraic criterion for the existence of an equilibrium, that is to say, an invariant probability that satisfies the detailed balance condition familiar from the thermodynamics of reaction networks. We also find that when such a probability exists, it can be described by a free energy function that combines an internal energy term and an entropy term. Under strong additional conditions, we show how the entropy term can be deconstructed using the finer-grained individual-token semantics of Petri nets.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 23 , Special Issue 2: Developments In Computational Models 2010 , April 2013 , pp. 290 - 307
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